Realtor urges parents to drop kids off on home tours after witnessing 6-year-old girl’s horrific injury

Things got real.

A Utah realtor is warning parents to think twice before bringing their kids to open houses — sharing a harrowing story that ended with a little girl being rushed to the hospital.

Karina VanOrman shared a story on TikTok about a couple who insisted on bringing their three children on every tour of the house.

“Kids will be running around the house watching it,” VanOrman said in a TikTok that has over 66,000 views. “Like all kids back then. The children are bored looking at the houses. The parents are seeing all the details… and the kids are, like, zooming in on the house in two seconds.”

In one such case, on a tour of a home still under construction in South Ogden, Utah, the couple’s 6-year-old daughter became so upset that she nearly died.

“The family had gotten there early and they had already looked around the yard and they were all very excited,” VanOrman said.

“I saw their six-year-old daughter run from the front of the house as fast as she could to run out into the backyard. And I could see she didn’t realize the sliding glass door was closed,” VanOrman says, then gulps. “I yelled, ‘Stop!’ But before she could stop herself, she ran straight through that glass door.”

The glass pane was first installed in the 1970s, according to the house maven, meaning the glass didn’t break, but formed into large pieces when it did.

“And so she ran through that glass door and as she turned around, there was a big shard of glass right in her stomach,” VanOrman recalled.

VanOrman said she urged the girl not to touch the glass, but the girl, in complete panic, pulled the shard out of her stomach. In doing so, she cut her hands severely. The small child also had wounds on his head from the broken door.

The quick-thinking estate agent grabbed a blanket from her car to apply pressure to the stomach wound while the parents – who were in shock – called an ambulance.

EMTs quickly realized the little girl’s injuries were serious enough to require a trip to Salt Lake City Children’s Hospital.

“I had to be strong in that situation. And I had to be the one who wasn’t in shock,” VanOrman reflects.

The stetson-wearing real estate veteran said that after the ordeal she sat in her car and she was “screaming.”

The 6-year-old girl miraculously survived with the glass barely missing several different critical body parts.

Now, VanOrman suggests that her clients not bring their young children on any home tours.

“It was a hard lesson I learned,” she concludes.

VanOrman says she eventually found the family a home that wasn’t a fixer-upper, and they still live there to this day.